Around 1380, the Swedish Imperial Councillor and landowner Bo Jonsson, a member of the Grip family, who had acquired a...
Architecture
Ponte Vecchio di Dolceacqua
At the westernmost tip of Liguria, barely ten kilometres from the coast of the Ligurian Sea, in the middle of the...
Augustus Fountain in Augsburg
The first of Augsburg's magnificent fountains, the Augustusbrunnen, was built between 1588 and 1594. It was...
Olivier Messiaen – a blackbird for the flutist
I probably don't think of any other composer as often as I think of Messiaen in my daily life - at least not with this...
The Palazzo Ducale in Venice and the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence
Venice and Florence are certainly among the highlights of a tour of Italy. Both cities grew massively in size, wealth...
Calvaries and churchyards in Brittany
In Brittany, i.e. in the north-west of France, there are these wonderful, legendary and usually very picturesque...
Technical Museum for Industry and Trade
On June 20, 1909, Emperor Franz Joseph I laid the foundation stone for the Technical Museum of Industry and Trade in...
The Ferris wheel in the Vienna Prater
On July 3, 1897, one of the landmarks of Vienna was opened - the Ferris wheel in the Vienna Prater. Gabor...
The stone bridge in Regensburg
The city of Regensburg, which by the 11th century had developed from a fortified Roman camp to one of the most...
The story of the Banqueting House
Born in 1573, Inigo Jones is regarded as the most important architect of English classicism. Little is known about his...
The Biskaya Bridge
In the northern Spanish province of Bizkaia, more precisely above the river that separates the municipality of...
Rialto Bridge
Venice, La Serenissima, Queen of the Adriatic, city of masks and love. Venice, today for many only the city of the...
English Garden
"England's pre- or pre-Romanticism begins in the middle of the 18th century and is predominantly literary and related...
Crystal Palace
In order to present the British products in direct comparison with their international competitors and to show the...
Gloriette Vienna
The word "Gloriette" refers to a building in a garden that is located on an elevated site. The largest and most famous...